Monthly archives: January 2009

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2009

-01.29.09- Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness of roughly 0.67 meter water equivalent (m w.e.). Some glaciers in the European Alps lost up to 2.5 m w.e. Read more

Jan

30

2009

-01.30.09- Scientists from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have selected 262 European observatories which analysed the series of minimum and maximum daily temperatures from 1955 to 1998 to estimate trend variations in extreme temperature events. According to the study, in Europe days of extreme cold are decreasing and days of extreme heat increasing. From 0.5ﾼC to 1ﾼC in the average minimum temperature, and from 0.5ﾼC to 2ﾼC in the average maximum temperature. Read more

Jan

30

2009

-01.29.09- Another cold snap is on its way in a winter that looks set to be the coldest for at least 13 years. Much of the UK will be in the grip of arctic conditions by Sunday as a plume of cold air spreads down from Scandinavia and western Russia bringing with it the threat of snow. Read more

Jan

30

2009

-01.29.09- The world’s glaciers thinned by an average of almost 29 inches in 2007, indicating that they are melting twice as fast this decade as during the 1980s and 1990s, Swiss scientists said Thursday. The World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich regularly measures 80 glaciers around the globe. Read more

Jan

30

2009

-01.29.09- A heatwave scorching southern Australia, causing transport chaos by buckling rail lines and leaving more than 140,000 homes without power, is a sign of climate change, the government said on Thursday. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a total of six days of 40-plus Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) temperatures for southern Australia, which would equal the worst heatwave in 100 years. Read more

Jan

28

2009

-01.26.09- Weather forecasters warned Monday of flooding and more gales to come after hurricane-force winds killed 26 people across southern Europe and left hundreds of thousands without electricity. Read more